Episode 35: Cole Porter
from Stories Behind the Songs Hosted by Frank LaSpina
Find out how Cole Porter had to rewrite two of his greatest hits, one bowing to political correctness and the other due to a notorious kidnapping. Another of his standards was, darkly, inspired by a lynching! Get the stories behind these songs.
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